Learning to Live Together

In today’s increasingly diverse societies, UNESCO continues to accomplish every day its fundamental humanist mission to support people in understanding each other and working together to build lasting peace. UNESCO also helps to enable people to create and use knowledge for just and inclusive societies.

Yet, lasting peace rests on a complex and fragile web of daily practices embedded in local settings and the most ephemeral encounters that individuals and communities creatively maintain out of the conviction that they constitute the sustainable conditions for living together in dignity and shared prosperity.

At a time of increasing global challenges and threats, such as inequality, exclusion, violence and sectarianism worsened by local tensions and conflicts which undermine humanity’s cohesion, learning to live together among all members of the global community becomes more topical than ever before.

Individuals become interculturally competent through learning and life experience for successful living in the modern complexity of our heterogeneous world and consequently they become prepared to appreciate diversity as well as to manage conflicts in accordance with the values of pluralism and mutual understanding.

Furthermore, UNESCO seeks to promote the development and the practice of sporting activities, as well as the fight against doping to foster social integration in different cultural and political contexts, recognizing that sport disregards both geographical borders and social classes.

The Organization also works to ensure that health and education are not the privilege of those who are well-off

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On August 16, 2018,the Social Development Center in partnership with Akimat of Almaty city organized the Youth Summer Camp "Tuģan Jer" at Lesnaya Skazka Resort nearby Almaty. UNESCO Almaty Cluster Office provided training on “Thinking Sustainably: Skills for Integrated Problem-Solving and Collective Actions to Further Sustainability at Local Level” for socially active 75 young people from different regions of Kazakhstan, studying at various education institutions in Almaty. The training was dedicated to the "International Literacy Day 2018", which is being celebrated under the theme of “Literacy and Skills Development” this year.